The Gympie Convention Centre on 13 February is the venue and date for the latest in the series of “Business is different now” workshops by the Australian Forest Contractors Association, ForestWorks ISC and Timber Queensland. Source: Timberbiz

Complete Logging Ltd has been fined NZ$60,000 and ordered to pay reparations of NZ$75,000 after a worker was hit and killed by a tree felled by another member of the crew. Sources: Stuff NZ, Fairfax NZ News, Radio New Zealand

Aconex, provider of the world's most widely used construction project management software, is supporting Zilkha Biomass Energy, a renewable energy company, in the design and building of a black pellet fuel plant. Source: Penn Energy

University of Canterbury (UC) research could revolutionise New Zealand’s forest industry by treating radiata pine as an agricultural crop and screening for strength and stability at a young age. Source: Voxy NZ